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reality ideas giving
All my pictures are built around the idea of getting in trouble and so giving me the chance to be desperately serious in my attempt to appear as a normal little gentleman. Charlie Chaplin
real men dust
As man sows, so shall he reap. In works of fiction, such men are sometimes converted. More often, in real life, they do not change their natures until they are converted into dust. Charles W. Chesnutt
real simple legends
A cynic might suggest as the motto of modern life this simple legend-"just as good as the real. Charles Dudley Warner
reality policy
No policy is worth anything outside of reality. Charles de Gaulle
real knowing want
The real trouble comes from not knowing what we really want in the first place. Charles de Lint
real book people
Often the magical elements in my books are standing in for elements of the real world, the small and magical-in-their-own-right sorts of things that we take for granted and no longer pay attention to, like the bonds of friendship that entwine our own lives with those of other people and places.
real umpires long
A long time ago a bunch of people reached a general consensus as to what's real and what's not and most of us have been going along with it ever since.
real writing character
I'd say that any character or setting can be given a bit of an otherworldly sheen and be the better for it. The one thing I insist on with my own writing is that I won't let magic solve my characters' real world problems. The solutions have to come from the characters themselves.
real thinking analogies
Fairy tales and mythology have always been an exaggerated distillation of the real world. Think of them as blueprints for how to deal with a multitude of situations that can arise in a person's life. The beauty of them is that their analogies resonate so deeply and they also entertain while they teach.
silly character blow
Flora, always tall, had grown to be very broad too, and short of breath; but that was not much. Flora, whom he had left a lily, had become a peony; but that was not much. Flora, who had seemed enchanting in all she said and thought, was diffuse and silly. That was much. Flora, who had been spoiled and artless long ago, was determined to be spoiled and artless now. That was a fatal blow. Charles Dickens
silly thinking fire
I think a lot of things can be misconstrued in a lot of ways. And I think if people open their minds more, and they try to look deeper into something than just something that is a very big, hot, fiery button to hide behind...I think if people looked into something bigger that I was trying to speak upon, they wouldn't be so easy to fire back silly, miscellaneous things. Chloe Grace Moretz
silly mean angel
There is no promise of love and light or visions of any kind - no angels, no devils. Nothing happens: it is absolutely boring. Sometimes you feel silly. One often asks the question, "Who is kidding whom? Am I on to something or not?" You are not on to something. Traveling the path means you get off everything, there is no place to perch. Sit and feel your breath, be with it. Chogyam Trungpa
silly two feet
Sometimes there are paparazzi that take photos and you don't know they're there. So you're laughing, kicking up your heels and doing silly things. You don't even realize it. And then there's other times where they're two feet away from your face and it's invasive and it feels threatening, so you don't want to be smiling. You just want to get out of that situation. Dianna Agron
silly expectations kind
Halfway through Numbers, I got really jaded, and I had these unrealistic expectations about what Numbers could be. I thought it should be Emmy-nominated. I was in my mid-20s, so I was kind of shortsighted and silly. David Krumholtz
silly thinking dollars
Perhaps you are thinking: 'But a tank costs several million dollars, not including floor mats. I don't have that kind of money.' Don't be silly. You're a consumer, right? You have credit cards, right? Perhaps you are thinking: 'Yes, but how am I going to pay the credit-card company?' Don't be silly. You have a tank, right? Dave Barry
silly men looks
The method preferred by most balding men for making themselves look silly is called the comb over.
silly book cute-life
What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death.
silly dumb pay
The wireless music box has no imaginable commercial value. Who would pay for a message sent to nobody in particular? David Sarnoff
character ideas clothes
I had no idea of the character. But the moment I was dressed, the clothes and the make-up made me feel the person he was. I began to know him, and by the time I walked onto the stage he was fully born.
character tramps figures
My character of the Tramp, the millions of workers symbolized in that one figure.
character men law
By the Law of Slavery, man, created in the image of God, is divested of the human character, and declared to be a mere chattel. Charles Sumner
character men realizing
Difficulty attracts the man of character because it is in embracing it that he realizes himself
character adversity responsibility
Adversity attracts the man of character. He seeks out the bitter joy of responsibility.
character hard-times virtue
Character is the virtue of hard times.
character normal dysfunctional-family
Well, while I didn't have the more extreme experiences of some of my characters, I didn't exactly come from the most normal of households. Or rather, it was normal, in that dysfunctional families appear to be the norm.
character attention elements
When one of my characters becomes aware of a magical element, it might be because the world is wider than we assume it to be, but it might also be a reminder to pay attention to what is here already, hidden only because it's been forgotten.
character interesting grind
The cramped monotony of my existence grinds me away by the grain.